Teen Bedroom Ideas - Just for Boys

Are you trying desperately to come up with teen bedroom ideas that your son will approve of, because he's outgrown his old bedroom?

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The main problem is that it's almost impossible to catch up with him between hockey practice and hanging out with his pals. And when you do run an idea by him, he just shrugs his shoulders or looks at you as if you've sprouted horns.

So, you may be working on your intimate knowledge of who your son really is, and sheer intuition. What you have to figure out what he loves to do, and find a teen bedroom idea to fit his most consistent passions.

The essential element of coming up with a successful teen bedroom idea is to make sure it reflects the personality of your teenage son.

For example, is your teenage son a sport's fan? I bet LOTS of you raised your hand on this one.

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There are a number of different ways to use teen bedroom ideas and mold them around his favorite sport.

Let's say your son is a hockey player. Paint different sized concentric circles on the walls to simulate a hockey rink and display his hockey trophies on aluminum shelving. Frame posters of hockey stars and Stanley Cup games and hang them on the walls.

You might buy two hockey sticks and some pucks and create your own mural. Use bold, bright reds and blues for the desk, chairs, lamps, and bedding. You might even track down an antique pair of hockey skates and display them on a shelf or hang them from a sturdy hook.

If rugby is his sport, paint rugby stripes on neutral walls, and hang a rugby net above his bed. For baseball, use the colors of his favorite teams for the walls and bedding.

Collect a dozen different baseball hats and hang them from pegs on the walls. Or make each wall into a base, with home base being the wall behind his bed. Hang a catcher's mitt above his bed, and a picture of a baseball star on each of the other three walls.

If you can afford it, buy one or two autographed baseballs and display them separately on small black shelves above his desk. And definitely grab some cool sports posters like these, click here.

If he likes a bunch of different sports, make a mural using all his sports photographs that you can find. Use the folders that team shots come in, where one photo is the team and the other photo is a portrait of your son.

Go back to his childhood, and include team shots and your own snapshots. Start in one corner of the room, using the youngest photo of a sport's shot, and staple all four corners to the wall.

Line the next folder or photo beside the first one and staple it up. Continue around the room until you have used all the photos that you can locate.

This is a perfect teen bedroom idea if your child is a bit older and has played a bunch of different sports.

Then put up shelving above his desk and display any sport's trophies and memorabilia. Use his first baseball mitt, his first pair of hockey skates, or an old pair of track shoes.

Maybe your teenage son is an urban cowboy, or maybe you live in the country where he gets to be a real cowboy. Decorating his bedroom in a western style is a great teen bedroom idea because you can make it very flexible.

Use lots of natural materials such as wood, rock, leather, and metal. Choose honey-toned woods, gray rocks, and silver or black metal.

Use western style fabrics for pillows, blankets, and rugs, or a heavy western print wall hanging.

Western style motifs for teen bedroom ideas include cowboys, cattle, horses, deer, bear, moose, mountains, coyotes, and hunting. Fabrics should include leather, suede, rough wools, tweeds, denims, and fur. Cracked leather chairs and footstools are perfect.

Scour flea markets and curio shops for old farm tools, cowboy boots with spurs, and mounted animal heads (fake ones if you can't stand the real thing).

This teen bedroom idea can be modified to fit a rustic cabin theme or a mountain trail style. Just add logs, birch bark, beadwork, antlers, and twig furniture.

Hang up posters of mountain lakes and vistas, and mount autumnal leaves in glass frames to hang on the walls. Again, if you'd like some poster ideas, try these links...

Perhaps your teenage son is a budding astronomer or a scientist. Design a teen bedroom idea using models of the solar system, maps of the constellations on the ceiling, and a telescope pointing out the window.

Paint the walls a deep sky blue and hang real photos taken from the Hubbell telescope on the walls. These photos include distant galaxies, black holes, Magellanic clouds, Supernova Remnants, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, comets, and many other amazing - and real - photographs.

There are websites where you can purchase glossy prints, and then mount them in silver and gold frames. If you are in tune with your teenage son's true passions, you will find a successful teenager bedroom idea.

And you may also find that your son spends a bit more time at home than he used to before you redecorated it!

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